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J. M. TOTIVIAN. END BOARD FASTENING APPLICATION mzo APR. 1. 1919.

atented Sept. 30, 1919.

nvvmr BY/u'; ATTORNEY?- Tmz COLUMBIA PLANOURAPH co., WASHINGTON, n. c.

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JONATHAN 1VL TOTMAN, 0F sroux rALLs, sou'rn DAKOTA,

END-BOARD FASTENING.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JONATHAN Vi. To'r- MAN, citizen of the United States, residing at Sioux Falls, in the county of Minnehaha and State of South Dakota, have invented a new and useful End-Board Fastening, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvement in end-boards for wagons, and the main object is to provide an end gate or end board with improved means for holding the several parts of the wagon-box in close contact with the end board, other fine stuff hauled in the wagon-box cannot escape through the crevices often created between the said parts in Wagons having but ordinary end boards and fasten ing means for same.

In the accompanying drawing,-Figure 1 is a perspective View of the rear portion of a wagon-box provided with my invention and having several top extensions. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 8 designates the bottom, 4: the sides and 5 the regular end-board (popularly termed the end-gate) of a wagon-box, upon which it is customary in hauling light stuff to place an extension or second box or box section 6, and sometimes thereupon a third section 7. These sections usually have their end boards 6 and 7 a permanently and strongly secured to the side boards by a rod, 8 passed through the side boards and having at one end a nut 10, preferably secured to the side board, and at the other end an eye 9 by which to screw the rod into the nut whenever so required, to obtain or maintain firmness of the sections. 11 and 12 are well known guiding means for keeping the upper sections of the box in proper relation to the main box et-5.

In the drawing, the end board 5 is shown as being of the type made up of two parts and secured together by hinges 13, one part being provided with a flat arm 14:, having a notch 15 for a rotary catch 16 secured in the other part and adapted to engage the arm 14: and prevent bending at the hinges 13 until the catch 16 is turned into the notch 15, but my invention is just as applicable to plain end boards of the type that is slid up and down in grooves guiding the ends of it.

The main invention comprises a disk or Specification of Letters Patent.

member 17 which so that wheat, flaxseed or 2 engaging an is pivoted to the end board to oscillate at its center 18. Said disk is provided with a radial lever 19 adapted to be engaged with the teeth of a rack 20 fixed on the end board. Extending from different points near the periphery of the disk are four chains 21, 22, 23, 241. The chains 21, 22 are provided with hooks 25, engaging metallic eye piece 25 fixed one on each side board 4 of the main box; the chain 23 is provided with a hook 26 engaging in an eye piece 27 at the end of the box bottom 8, and the chain 24L has a hook eye piece 28 fixed on the box section 6 and from the box section 7 depends a chain 29 having a hook 30 arranged to be hooked into such link of the chain 24C as will best enable both chains to pull downward on the two sections simultaneously.

In the operation or use of the device, when the chains are placed as shown and the lever 19 is engaged in the lowest notch to which it can be forced in the rack 20, all the chains will be firmly stretched and all the parts attached to the outer ends of' the chains will be squeezed tightly against the bottom edge and the end edges of the main end board, and the section 6 will be held firmly against the top edge of the board 5, and if the section 7 u is in use, it will be firmly held down upon the section (i When the sections and parts are thus held firmly together, leakage of the contents of the wagon-box is prevented and also such wear and tear of the parts as would tend to make them leaky some future day.

What I claim is 1. The combination with the end and end board of a wagon-box, of a disk centrally pivoted to the end board and having a radial lever, a rack arranged to engage an hold the lever in different positions, eye pieces fixed to the end of the bottom and to the ends of the sides of the wagon-box, and chains extending from various points of the disk near the edge thereof and having hooks adapted for engagement with said eye pieces.

2. The structure specified in claim 1, said wagon box having one or more top extensions and chain connection from the same to the disk.

8. The structure specified in claim 2, said Patented Sept. 30, 1919.

. Application filed April 7, 1919; Serial No. 288,383. 1 h v section.

chain connection consisting of a chain at- J 4.'The structure specified in claim 1'," said tached to the disk and having a hook eneye pieces consisting of fiat armsh'secured to o gaging an eye piece on vthe lowest box ex the outer sides of the sides and bottom oflo tension, and a chain fiXedto the upper box the Wagon box and having eyes projecting section and having a hook engaging in the rearward-1y thereof. 7 links of the chain holding the lower 'bOX In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

, 7 JONATHAN M. TOTMAN.

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